In the first place, I want to thank you and congratulate you for your website.
In the section dedicated to the first Spanish aviators it appears that Heraclio Alfaro Fournier was
first Spanish aviator, in 1914.
In 1909, Catalan engineer Gaspar Brunet Viadera built an airplane which was tested by the
Italian motorcyclist Ravelli, at the race course of Dog Tunis (Barcelona). In that same year, it was exhibited
in the Valencian Regional Exhibition, equipped with a Anzani motor of 25 HP. On the 5th of September, 1909, piloted by
Juan Olivert, a flight of 45 meters was made in Paternal (Valencia).
On the 8th of October, 1910, Ravelli made some test flights in Moncada (Valencia) with a Brunet 2.
From the 12th to the 18th of June, 1912, the "II Setmana of l'Aviació of Barcelona" was celebrated;
(II week of the aviation of Barcelona). The pilot Jose Gonzalez Camó took part in it with a Gonzalez monoplane that did not get to
take off. In this same encounter, Manuel Menéndez Valdés participated with a Deperdussin monoplane. It was the property of French
pilot Lecombe.
On the 15th of October, 1912, Catalan pilot Luís Foyé Barella obtained the pilot license nº 21 of
Spain in the Farman School de Etampes.
Kindly,
Joan JuanolaFundació Parc Aeronàutic de Catalunya

You can access the whole article in Spanish by clicking on the title above.

The following is a machine-translation, which I have tried to improve a little bit, although I am severely
limited by my lack of an adequate command of the language.

On June of 1913, Luis Montesinos Espartero, Marquess of Morella, founded the National School
of Aeronautics, well-known then by the acronym ENA. The team of professors was not easy to assemble,
but we musn't forget that it had been only three years since Benito Loygorri Pimentel had earned his license on August 20, 1910.
For a start, they accepted Julio Adaro Terradillos (28- 10-1911), Mariano de las Peñas Mesqui (16-1-1912), Antonio Grancha Baixauli
(12-2-1912) and sometime later Manuel Menéndez Valdés (17-3-1912) as the first students.

The Ministry of Public Works and the Economy decided to contribute its modest support to the project
and financed the purchase of four "Deperdussin" airplanes. The first one, which was used in the initial stages of instruction at ENA,
was powered by an Anzani motor of 35 Cv. It was called a Penguin, that is to say it made short rolls and jumped into the air, without
actually flying. The second, with a Gnome motor of 50 Cv, was a single-seater used for the free flights. The last two had
Gnome motors of 80 Cv each and were two-seaters with dual controls for flights to qualify students for licenses.
On September 2, 1913, the Minister of Promotion, Rafael Gasset y Chinchilla, became the first
member of the government of Spain to fly in an airplane. Piloted by Manuel Menéndez, he flew over the city of Madrid and the
environs of Getafe. With this event, the ENA was officially inaugurated .